take a listen to what he told cnn's jill dougherty today. >> what is important is government to government, north korea knows what it has to do. we're not, you know, changing our policy with respect to talking to them, because we need to make it clear that they have to move towards the denuclearization, they need to stop the threats, they need to stop the missile tests, stop the nuclear tests and we're prepared to come to the table under the meeting of the obligations in order to have a full fledged negotiation and we'll negotiate the full set of concerns that the north has. >> cnn's anna coren is live in seoul, south korea. many had expected that the missile launch would happen today. so what is the silence out of north korea telling us? >> reporter: well, it is hard to tell, you know. the thing about north korea is that they are just so unpredictable. today was an extremely auspicious day, the most important day on the north korean calendar. so they wouldn't want to necessarily upstage the celebrations of the anniversary of the birth of kim il-sung and they also wouldn't want a failure o